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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] i386 spinlocks should use the full 32 bits, not only 8 bits
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 00:27:03 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051020222703.GA28221@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0510201512480.10477@g5.osdl.org>


* Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:

> 
> 
> On Fri, 21 Oct 2005, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > 
> > the unlock is simple even in the preemption case
> 
> No it's not. It needs to decrement the preemption counter and test it.

arghhh. Right you are. I even had the proper solution coded up initially 
(i had || defined(CONFIG_PREEMPT)) but dropped it due to fatal brain 
error. Been hacking on way too much ktimer code today ... Hopefully 
better patch attached. Booted on SMP+PREEMPT x86. But i'd really advise 
you against taking patches from me tonight :-|

	Ingo

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

 include/linux/spinlock.h |   15 ++++++++++++---
 1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Index: linux/include/linux/spinlock.h
===================================================================
--- linux.orig/include/linux/spinlock.h
+++ linux/include/linux/spinlock.h
@@ -171,9 +171,18 @@ extern int __lockfunc generic__raw_read_
 #define write_lock_irq(lock)		_write_lock_irq(lock)
 #define write_lock_bh(lock)		_write_lock_bh(lock)
 
-#define spin_unlock(lock)		_spin_unlock(lock)
-#define write_unlock(lock)		_write_unlock(lock)
-#define read_unlock(lock)		_read_unlock(lock)
+/*
+ * We inline the unlock functions in the nondebug case:
+ */
+#if defined(CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK) || defined(CONFIG_PREEMPT)
+# define spin_unlock(lock)		_spin_unlock(lock)
+# define read_unlock(lock)		_read_unlock(lock)
+# define write_unlock(lock)		_write_unlock(lock)
+#else
+# define spin_unlock(lock)		__raw_spin_unlock(&(lock)->raw_lock)
+# define read_unlock(lock)		__raw_read_unlock(&(lock)->raw_lock)
+# define write_unlock(lock)		__raw_write_unlock(&(lock)->raw_lock)
+#endif
 
 #define spin_unlock_irqrestore(lock, flags) \
 					_spin_unlock_irqrestore(lock, flags)

  reply	other threads:[~2005-10-20 22:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-10-11  4:04 i386 spinlock fairness: bizarre test results Chuck Ebbert
2005-10-11  9:42 ` Eric Dumazet
2005-10-11 13:00 ` Alan Cox
2005-10-11 14:44   ` Linus Torvalds
2005-10-11 15:32     ` [PATCH] i386 spinlocks should use the full 32 bits, not only 8 bits Eric Dumazet
2005-10-11 16:03       ` Linus Torvalds
2005-10-11 16:36         ` Eric Dumazet
2005-10-11 16:54           ` Linus Torvalds
2005-10-11 16:55             ` Linus Torvalds
2005-10-17  7:03           ` Andrew Morton
2005-10-17  7:20             ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-10-20 21:50               ` Ingo Molnar
2005-10-20 21:57                 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-10-20 22:02                   ` Ingo Molnar
2005-10-20 22:15                     ` Linus Torvalds
2005-10-20 22:27                       ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2005-10-20 22:44                         ` Andrew Morton
2005-10-20 22:53                           ` Ingo Molnar
2005-10-20 23:01                             ` Andrew Morton
2005-10-20 23:26                               ` Ingo Molnar
2005-10-27 16:54                                 ` Paul Jackson
2005-10-11 17:59         ` Andi Kleen

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